I think the water that I am drinking here is making me unwell, I've spent the day in bed with a funny tummy and other people have experienced the same thing. It's bottled water but its been treated here in Chiang Mai so perhaps I will drink imported water from now. I'm nearly at the end of my placement and I feel that I have experienced everything that I came here for. It has been a wonderful experience, I have leant so much and watched so many surgeries and pr...

Narkornping hospital has become swarmed with many gap medics students who are rude and demanding towards the doctors and patients and simply disrespectful, coming into hospital hungover and throwing up. So there's been a big meeting and there are now only 2 students allowed in the OR at one time. I have done my ob/gyn placement for 2 weeks already so the manager changed me to a different hospital with two other gap medics students and we're all working in differe...

Today was spent by the pool just relaxing and enjoy the quiet before a new bunch of people arrived from all over the world and others arrived back from their hill tribe experience. I also spent some time at the Internet cafe booking the last of my travels and transportation. I'm really looking forward to actually traveling and exploring thailand before I fly back home to real life!

Today I had a great sleep in, it was glorious! Then Sophie and I decided that we should book all of our travels so we didn't have to worry about it. So we began by getting a red taxi to the train station I'm Chiang Mai where we could buy our overnight train tickets to Ayutthaya. After this we went to the centre of Chiang Mai to have lunch and have a bit of a shop before heading back to the Internet cafe nearby the gap medics house to book our accommodation. After...

There were a lot of empty seats on the bus this morning, some people must have had a bit too much to drink... We spent the morning in the ob/gyn ward watching the nurse vaccinate the babies and take blood tests. Then we spent some time holding the babies who's mothers we unable to be with their babies for various reasons, either due to recovery or the mothers had been discharged from the hospital but the babies needed more care. Our doctor then told us that there...